For Sofia Coppola, the details are everything when it comes to filmmaking, and the same goes for DVDs of her films.

Lost in Translation writer and director Sofia Coppola has packed plenty of extras into the film's DVD.

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Plenty of extras await viewers of the Oscar-nominated Lost in Translation, out on DVD this week.

In addition to a music video of City Girl by Kevin Shields and several additional scenes, you get a filmed conversation with Coppola and best-actor Oscar nominee Bill Murray and some "home movies," as she describes them, that were taken behind the scenes.

"It's fun to kind of see how they make the movie," says Coppola, 32, who last week became the first American woman nominated for a directing Oscar for Translation. "I like to see the little things that went into the filming."

The DVD extras touch on Coppola's quest to land Murray for the part of Bob Harris, a movie star in Tokyo to make commercials for a Japanese whiskey maker. His serendipitous meeting with Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) and their friendship is the crux of the film.

Coppola wrote the screenplay with Murray in mind and spent eight months trying to land him for the role. Finally, the two met, and "he said he thought he would do it," Coppola says. "We didn't have a contract. It was a handshake deal."

Still, she says, "I didn't know until he showed up (in Tokyo) a few days before we started shooting. It was pretty unnerving. We were spending a lot of money without a backup. But I figured he was a man of his word."

In the "home movie" footage, Coppola says, she "can't wait to see Bill in his kimono."

Scenes on the set reveal her as calm and collected behind the camera.

"I don't freak out and yell," she says. "It is stressful making a movie, but I don't turn into a different personality."

Translation was inspired by a jet-lagged vision that Coppola had of traveling to Tokyo and two people connecting unexpectedly. "I wanted something with a story that was very simple and about atmosphere and mood and to see if I could build tension with very little happening," she says. "That may not seem like much, but those moments in life are a big deal.

"When you walk around the corner and you are wondering if you are going to run into that person, it feels much more epic than you would describe it. And when you have an infatuation, everything becomes intense."

She shrugs off the notion that success has come easy for her because she is the daughter of Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola. Her previous film, The Virgin Suicides (1999), was well received and revealed a director confident in her vision. She co-wrote that screenplay with the book's author, Jeffrey Eugenides. She is the sole writer on Translation and is nominated for the original-screenplay Oscar.

"Nothing has been easy," she says. "We worked so hard to make these movies with a very low budget and very short schedules and (with Translation) not speaking the language, there were so many challenges. But I didn't expect for it to have such public success."